 Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw ; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite ; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and pray'r-books are the toys of age : Pleas'd with this bauble...  Der Mensch, ein philosophisches Gedicht - Σελίδα 23των Alexander Pope - 1772 - 351 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Alexander Pope - 1892 - 212 σελίδες
...beads and pray'r-books are the toys of age: 280 l' Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before; j- I 'Till tir'd he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er. * Mean-while opinion gilds with varying rays ^L* Those painted clouds that beautify our days; v^'<'V^'"' f^ Each want of happiness by hope supply'd,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1893 - 588 σελίδες
...stage, And beads and pray'r-books are the toys of age : i ' . * 4^° Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before; "Till tir'd he sleeps, and Life's...o'er. '"Mean-while Opinion gilds with varying rays Those painted clouds that beautify our days; 1 the poet in his Mitse.] The author having said, that... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 462 σελίδες
...amuse his riper stage. And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age: Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before, Till tir*d he sleeps, and life's poor...is o'er. Meanwhile opinion gilds with varying rays Those painted clouds that beautify our days; Each want of happiness by hope supplied. And each vacuity... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1893 - 566 σελίδες
...youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite : Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and pray'r-books are the toys of age: 280 Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before; 'Till tir'd he sleeps, and Life's poor play is o'er. Mean-while Opinion gilds... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 534 σελίδες
...beads and prayer-books are the toys of age : Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er. Meanwhile opinion gilds with varying rays Those painted clouds that beautify our days; Each want of happiness by hope supplied, And each vacuity... | |
 | 1895 - 416 σελίδες
...amuse his riper stage, And beads and pray'r-books are the toys of age : Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before ; Till tir'd he sleeps, and Life's poor play is o'er. POPE. 327 Let 's do it after the high Roman f cushion. ANT. AND CLEOP. iv. 15. E last year's papers... | |
 | 1897 - 828 σελίδες
...his riper stage, And beads and pray'r-books are thé tuys of âge : Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before ; Till tir'd he sleeps, and life's...is o'er. Meanwhile opinion gilds with varying rays Thoîe painted clouds that beautify our clays ; Each want of hapiness by hope supply'a, And each vacuity... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1898 - 120 σελίδες
...and prayer books are the toys of age: 280 Pleased with this bauble still, as that before; Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er. Meanwhile Opinion gilds with varying rays Those painted clouds that beautify our days; Each want of happiness by hope supplied, 285 And each... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 578 σελίδες
...and prayer books are the toys of age : Pleased with this bauble still, as that before ; 'Till tired he sleeps, and Life's poor play is o'er. Meanwhile Opinion gilds with varying rays Those painted clouds that beautify our days ; Each want of happiness by hope supplied, And each vacuity... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 141 σελίδες
...,And beads and pray'r-books are the toys of age : Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before ; 281 'Till tir'd he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er. Mean-while opinion gilds with varying rays Those painted clouds that beautify our days ; Each want of happiness by hope supply'd, And each vacuity... | |
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